Northwest Storms.

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I just heard about all the awful weather y'all are having out in the Northwest part of the country , Please be safe all of you . If you should need anything let lets us know. 114 mile hr winds and flooding ,gee I thought Sandy was bad , y'all are getting hit hard as well. Barbara

Barbara, haven't heard a thing. But, also haven't had the TV on. Where bouts is this terrible storm??

I had to google this too! Most of the high winds are on the Oregon Coast and some on the southern Washington Coast. That is pretty high, but not too unusual for the western coast. I remember one big storm when I was still living in Oregon when the winds on the coast were clocked at over 150 mph at several locations. The big story really is the huge amounts of rainfall with this storm...I heard them say something like 8 inches in 2 days all the way from San Francisco to Seattle. The west coast gets a lot of rain, but it usually is in smaller doses over a longer period of time... like a 1/2 to 1 inch a day for 30 days. But 8 inches in 2 days...that is a lot of water and makes for a lot of mudslides on steep hillsides! As Patti said, she, Marge P and I all live on the "dry" side of Washington (or at least we thought we did), but this storm is big enough that there has been plenty left in the clouds to get over the mountains and drop on us too! We have probably had over 2 inches in the last 5 days - which is a lot for here!!!

Now Judy E in Enumclaw could be another matter. I am not sure if she is on a hill or on the flat farmland area. Maybe she will jump in with a report and let us know if we need to send a raft her way.

Danna ,Pattie and Spud,i didn't know where most of you were located.I did know Patti was more in state. I just saw this On GMA and it was scarey all the flooding and those winds. Glad to know you all were not in the bad stuff. Hope you all have a great holiday. Barbara

Now Judy E in Enumclaw could be another matter. I am not sure if she is on a hill or on the flat farmland area. Maybe she will jump in with a report and let us know if we need to send a raft her way.

We're on the plateau, just at the base of the mountains. We had severe winds and some rain but nothing that didn't soak into the fields eventually. The problems were more in towns where the roads and sewer systems couldn't handle the excess rain. Gutters get clogged from the leaves and sewers are so full the blast the manhole covers off. And people, like my brother in the University district in north Seattle, end up with several feet of water in their basement that the sump pump couldn't keep up with. With Seattle pretty much at sea level it doesn't work too well to have a basement. But you learn to keep stuff above floor level. And absolutely nothing like the devastion on the East coast with hurricane Sandy happened here.

With Seattle pretty much at sea level it doesn't work too well to have a basement.

I am glad to hear some news about the northwest and that you are all okay. I had to laugh about the basement comment - here in OK not very many have basements either - we are in the middle of the USA and not much water around us but just underneath us about 10' down is the water table for most of OK - so we flood with just a little bit of rain and if you do have a basement you have to have a sump pump almost constantly running.

I am glad that your storm was nothing like Sandy. We just don't need another one that bad for a while - seems like the NW would be the next to get hit though... we had the SW and the mid west and the mid north - now the east coast... so it is moving around... hoping it doesnt' happen for a long time.